Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-04
Invented Occupations. 1FroOo Harnar,S Razar

There are a number of employments
 waiting those who are wise enough to devise
 them and not too proud to fill them, which,
 the moment they are named, strike everyone
 with wonder that they have not been in use
 before, and which perfectly suitable for
 young women who have filled stations in so-
 ciety which unfit them for much rude or
 rough work. Take, for instance, the baking of fine cake. Some dozen years ago young lady returning from Europe found herself on her native shores almost destitute, nearly all her property having suddenly been lost. An
 accident caused one of her friends to learn l that she knew how to make delicious cake of sort hitherto untasted over here. The | friend, seized with an idea, took portion of l the cake to another friend; the other friend, | about to give an entertainment, desired the novelty; presently everybody else de-ired it and was willing to pay for it; and keeping her recipe to herself, she soon found herself with enough occupation for her own time and that of several assistants, and the found CT of business that grew o as to make not
 only comfortable income, but a property. Another course that We have heard of is that of a young lady with sort of genius for costume, millinery and general parapher- nalia. While wealthy herself she could in- aulge her taste, and when in reduced cir cumstances 1t was more cross to her that
 she could not indulge this taste for devising
 and designing and seeing results than that
 she could no longer wear the striking
 tumes herself. The pleasure of suggesting
 combinations and outlines to various of her
 old friends who had not deserted her made
 her see that it was possible to turn her talent
 to account. Now many ladies-who do not
 wish to be merely tame replicas of fashion
 plates in dress, but while adapting their ma
 terial in the main to the demands of fashion, 50 that they shall not seem at ali out of style, prefer to maintain an individuality
 through it all that shall bring out their own good points and subdue their bad ones, go to her for the sketch of a dress suitable 10 their shape and manner, according to her ideas, harmonizing or contrasting, but never mak
 ing dscord with their personal peculiarities, and she has found the work paying as well profession.
 Everybody knows of the lady who made some dolls shoes for fair, which shoes sold
 so we'll to let it seem worth her while to
 make others and put them sale for her own profit, and doing she met long un- filled want and rapidly became the head of large business, furnishing fn- years the
 greater part of all the dolls snoes made in
 the country. But few people perhaps have
 heard of the young lady who, needing to
 help herself, and sering the market full of poorly paid music and painting teachers, and the shops full of unstable water colors, be- thought herself of one accom- plishment that had always brought her in applause. She se- cured, with hardly any difficu .ty at all sev- eral classes in whist playing, and every day met her classes at the appointed hours, having soon more eager learners at good prices than she could do justice to, whist playing, including both mnemonics and mathematics to degree that demands con- tinuous study and instruction on the part of those who would perfect themselves in it's art.
 Still another occupation suggested itself to young person by the fact that often when the lamps of house were trimmed by the maid they smoked or otherwise mis- behaved, but when one of the ladies of the
 house attended to them their flame was clear and bright, and still more by the fact that often their was the last part of the days work, and then the late trim
 ming endangered the house. Since lamps have become fashionable, and so often re- place gas with their steady light, the mat ter of their trimming has acquired some weight; and thinking the matter over, our
 young person decided to offer her services
 in the sole matter of lamp trimming, and
 now, armed with her implements, she goes
 from house to house cleaning and filling
 the lamps, straining the old oil and set
 ting it aside for furniture polish when too
 thick for burning well. attending to wicks,
 rub bbing up burners and cleaning chimneys,
 leaving everything about them in desirable trim for the night, and then going on to the next, willing to do the work with sci entidc neatness for the sake of a small weekly stipend, in view of the number of stipends, so many housekeepers having shown themselves delighted to have lamps that burn like those of the wise virgins, and to be rid of all the soiling and mal- odorous work.